before i kill myself with stabilizer

Try shaking it for 30 seconds or so, then set it on the counter while you run your Cl and pH tests, and then pour it into the tube... see if that makes a difference.

Janet

thanks, A. i did it again after putting in 900 gm bottle of stabilizer about 2 hours ago now..it's getting a reading at about 15 ppm so it's getting there. i'll leave it overnight and run the pump for a full cycle and check it when i get home tomorrow. i have read the cautions about too much of it so i'll take it easy:)

If you are useing solid CYA it can take week to desolve so you might wait a few days to test. If you are useing liquid you might want to check this post out.

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthr...5498#post25498

Steve

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Originally Posted by tenax

i bought some today..recently stopped using bucks and went with regular bleach but with a lot of heat lately, burning through it pretty good so i broke open my wallet and bought some granular stabilizer....am i correct in reading somewhere that to avoid noxious gas to "add the chemical to water", NOT "add water to the chemical".

or was it the other way around.

T

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I think you are referring to 'strong' acids like muriatic, i.e. hydrochloric, (and sulfuric, nitric, etc). In these cases you ALWAY add the acid (already a liquid) to water and not the other way around or it can boil violenlty and splatter all over the place! Cyanuric acid, while an acid, is what is known chemically as a 'weak' acid', much like citric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), or acetylsalicylic acid (asprin) .

must be..i think i tasted some while i was smoking a cigarette (didn't wash hands first..LOL)

ps- talk about strong? i worked for pepsi for 2 summers many moons ago and the concentrate for pepsi and hires root beer is so strong that it is like soft fudge. came in a 1 gallon "wine box" type thing..and you add 1 gallon of the concentrate to 10,000 gallons of water..(then 20-88 lb bags of sugar!) the concentrate is so strong that i saw a guy burn a hole in his tongue when he put a bit of the concentrate on it.

needless to say, i can't drink pepsi ever since. the smell makes me gag:)

This has nothing to do with stabilizer, but it makes it simple to remember... "Do what you oughtta; add acid to watah." :D ;)